GQT At Home: Episode Seventeen
Kathy Clugston hosts this week's horticultural panel show.
Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural panel show. Matt Biggs, Matthew Pottage and Pippa Greenwood answer listeners' gardening questions sent in via email and social media.
This week, the panel discusses the merits of banana peel as a fertiliser, how best to care for your succulents and planting suggestions for a movable wedding date.
Away from the questions, James Wong chats to Grow2Know founder Tayshan Hayden-Smith about gardening in the wake of Grenfell and Advolly Richmond dusts off the history books once again to tell the story of the nasturtium.
Producer - Jemima Rathbone
Assistant Producer - Rosie Merotra
A Somethin' Else production for 成人论坛 Radio 4
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Questions and timecodes are below. Where applicable, plant names have been provided.
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Q 鈥� I鈥檓 looking to add some plants to my garden that remind me of my family. Do you have any suggestions of plants that match my family鈥檚 names (Dolly, Tom, Richard, Catherine?)
(51 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥� Hosta 鈥楥补迟丑别谤颈苍别鈥�
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Pittosporum 鈥楾om Thumb鈥�
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Colchicum 鈥楧ick Trotter鈥�
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Rose
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Pippa 鈥� Narcissus 鈥楶eeping Tom鈥�
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Tomato
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Matt 鈥� Cortaderia Richardii
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Crocus Tommasinianus
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Q 鈥� I鈥檝e spotted some poppies flowering that I鈥檇 like to grow myself. When is the best time to collect the seeds and how should I try and grow them?
(3 minutes 57 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Are banana peels a suitable fertiliser for runner beans and if so, how do you go about making it? If not, can you recommend any other organic fertilisers?
(5 minutes 55 seconds)
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Matt 鈥� Roses
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Tomato fertiliser
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Q 鈥� We are in the process of renovating our concrete garden and have made space for two trees. Can the panel suggest some that would not cast a large shadow or grow much above 4-5m.
(8 minutes 5 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥� Strawberry Tree Arbutus Unedo
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Azara Microphylla
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Matt 鈥� Topiary Tree
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Hakonechloa macra听'All Gold'
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Alliums 鈥楪濒辞产别尘补蝉迟别谤鈥�
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Feature 鈥� Grow2Know founder, Tayshan Hayden-Smith, with James Wong
(11 minutes 43 seconds)
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Tomato
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Q 鈥� Are there any particular plants that would fair ok in extreme light and heat right up against a window? I live in a small flat with a large south-facing window and would love to line the windowsill with plants but don鈥檛 want them to get scorched.
(19 minutes 15 seconds)
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Matt 鈥� Cacti and Succulents
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Adenium Obesum
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Aloes
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Matthew 鈥� Palms
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Yucca Elephantipes
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Beaucarnea recurvata 鈥楨lephant鈥檚 Foot鈥�
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Bird of Paradise
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Yucca 鈥楶耻办鈥�
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Q 鈥� One of our Albus Lacinata trees, which we bought for our daughter鈥檚 wedding, is drying out and has started to drop its leaves. What should we do so that the lacinata is ready for the new wedding date?
(22 minutes 17 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥� Tuberous begonia
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Begonia Semperflorens
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Cleome
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Dahlia
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Q 鈥� What is destroying the leaves of my Indian bean tree? It happens every year!
(26 minutes 12 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥� Catalpa
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Feature 鈥� History of Nasturtiums with Advolly Richmond
(28 minutes 38 seconds)
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Nasturtium tropaeolum majus
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Nasturtium indicum
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鈥楨ast Indian Cress鈥�
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Watercress
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Tropaeolum majus
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Capers
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Q 鈥� Why are my nasturtiums not flowering?
(32 minutes 37 seconds)
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Q 鈥� Do you have any top tips on caring for succulents? Can you overwater them?
(34 minutes 21 seconds)
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Matthew 鈥� 鈥楳other-in-Law鈥檚 Tongue鈥�
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Q 鈥� When should a keen gardener go on holiday? Going away during summer seems crazy as there is so much to do.
(38 minutes 23 seconds)
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Matt 鈥� Daphne
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Winter Flowering Honeysuckle
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